DFA to AL Gore: Jump In or Drop Out !

Honorable Al Gore - you know how much we love you, and we know how much you love this country. We'll always support you in that light whatever your decision . . . but having said that, please represent us as the President of this great nation.

Please run, Mr. Gore! We're running out of new words to try and convince you, so now we have to go back to the basics. Please run!

Please run, Mr. Gore! We need you. We support you. So many I know will work as hard as they can donating time, money, and talent to get you elected.

The world needs you Al Gore. Bush & Co. have plundered the reputation of the USA. We need you to save our planet from global Warming, wars and uncontrolled big business.

No current candidate is stepping up to the plate on global warming. Al Gore is our only hope for this country to get involved and take the necessary steps to win this fight. Please, Mr. Gore, answer the call. You are needed.

Dear President Gore,

You won the first time but somehow chickened-out and turned the country over to a veiled, subtle and repressive government which behaves more like an autocratic banana republic than the watershed of freedom, equlity and truth. In fact, those terms seem hollow in the face of the turmoil and degradation we have loosened on the world. Whatever you may feel personally about your new mission and its effectiveness, you are the ONLY person who has the intelligence, priorities and popularity to bring the Party together and win the presidential election in 2008. It is your moral duty. The Country must make an effort to make right the thousand wounds it has inflicted on the planet and the species that inhabit it.

Dear Mr. Gore...or Uncle Al as we like to call him around here.....You might be concerned about fracturing the party if you get in......the bigger picture is that if you don't get in then we will be once more given the torch to another candidate who cannot get elected come November....aren't we all a bit tired of that by now?
You say your involved in another kind of campaign...well then if this is really so....shut down the Gore drating now and be on with it-like you did in 2004...otherwise this is starting to boarder on emotional tangling and that's just not fair to us who really want you in so.....either get in...or get out!
Best, K

I can't add anything that hasn't already been said here. I can just add one more voice, as many times as I can, for as long as it takes...until you "jump in" or tell us who you will endorse. I know this is a tremendous burden to take on. I know you are up to this task. I most humbly ask you to consider this as an average American worker and mother. We need you, sir.

Please run, Al.

Dear Mr. Gore,

The hour is near, Sir. And, if I may be so bold as to borrow your apt analogy, America has a fever, and this point in history finds us in a moment of great peril. In essence, we are under siege. Now, I know this is not news to you, Sir, but our country - - your country is languishing, perhaps at her lowest point in history.

We are embroiled in war, Sir. But, I speak not of the occupation in Iraq or the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. As tragic and misguided as both of those are, and as deserved of deep discussion as such, the war I speak of now is being waged back here at home, and it involves two-fronts.

So, needless to say, we are not fighting a conventional war but rather one of asymmetrical nature. That is what is distinguishing this war from any other in our history. America is not fighting a foreign enemy on our shores. Nor are we embroiled in bloody civil war within. Ironically, in many ways it would be easier if we were up against such familiar conflicts. For, if we faced clearly definable enemies, then, collectively, We the People, could at least look to our history for salvation. Indeed, we could rely on the experiences of our forefathers; written records of what America faced as a young struggling nation, and then proceed accordingly. History would at least deliver us a devise; an outline of how to step back from the precipice we’re fast approaching. We could work to mend our differences, console each other's fear, bring compromise to the table, and look to the vaunted U.S. Constitution for solutions - common ground to stand united upon.

Alas, Sir, we are not united. We as a nation are as fractured as any time in history. What We the People now face is not anything we’ve ever had to face before. Our looming enemies were unthinkable just a few short years ago; unimaginable, even to the most curious of minds among us. In the same respect, our enemies are not in collaboration to divide the spoils of war at the time of our demise. In fact, no spoils will remain at this war’s end. Only chaos and bedlam will remain; merely a vestige of the life we used to know. We the People would essentially be refugees trammeled in our own country; struggling day to day for ever-dwindling sustenance – for water, food and shelter – for dear life itself, however inconsequential it becomes in such a hostile, unforgiving world. And, when the smoke finally clears and the dead are buried, the America that will emerge will be foreign to us, and we will be left a weak, oppressed and diffident citizenry.
Sir, to be blunt, We the People find ourselves facing two distinct and dangerous enemies. Unfortunately, one of those enemies comes from amongst us; inherently evil, pernicious and greedy, and the other such a juggernaut that it threatens to engulf all living things on earth.

Ultimately, what threatens the very existence of this country, indeed the very ideas that define America is the unlikely alliance of both of our enemies. Surreally, together, they will pummel away at America's core until she is but a ghost of what she once was - a mere shell of a country, lacking all spirit, hope and vigor.

We find ourselves, Sir, in uncharted waters, with barely an oar to chart our direction.

Through your sage wisdom and innate prescience you have seen what I have described above. You know all too well that what I have envisioned is not only a possibility, but it is also a given - if we do not, as a united America - take the necessary steps to address what needs to be done before it’s too late.

Sir, you know in your heart what one of those necessary steps are. And, I believe you also know your destiny. The situation is dire, Mr. Gore... and, the time is well-nigh.

Please do the right thing.

Be the leader America desperately needs.

Dear Mr. Gore,

I've heard the argument that you don't want to run because you think you'll be more effective in another role. Mr Gore, forgive my bluntness, but unless you and I are reviewing radically different sets of data, that's just not so.

The ones I'm looking at suggest instead, Sir, that you are desperately needed as President. Yes, for effective measures on global warming to proceed. But there are other things to do as well, and only you can.

Maybe you don't want to do it. If so, I think I understand. And whether I understand or not, I am truly sorry to push you on this. But if you don't run, there is too strong a likelihood that we, and especially the most vulnerable among us, will all feel a whole lot worse in all parts of the world.

New hope is needed. New vision is needed. New action is needed. Respectfully, sir, you are needed.

Please Al, we need you more than ever! The progressive base is overwhemingly behind you.
OVERWHELMINGLY!

Sir,

Americans want you to run and we can be sooo annoying at times, I know. But I doubt any of us will shut up anytime soon - you know how we can be.

The Blue States are yours already, the Purple States are yours too because they look back at what could have been if things had gone differently in 00, that and they feel bad - they feel you need your chance to pull us out of the Hell-hole we are currently in. The Red States (what there is left of them) are a toss up. Nothing you can do about the blind political rage they have.

I know another run for the Presidency may not seem like a fun thing to do right now and in a strange sort of way WINNING the election will totally suck. It will be on your shoulders to fix the multi-layer putrid mess we are in. You know what to do, global warming-wise, but it will also be up to you to fix our debacle in Iraq and what ever mess Bush starts in Iran. Oh and there is that open sore called Afghanistan we should put some compute cycles into.

And did you know the economy is a wreck? Remember that high-falutin' job I had under Clinton / Gore? It went extinct in 2001. The dollar also is lower than a Dick Cheney Dirty Trick™.

So I know you would rather not get sucked into the slime pit known as politics, but we need you.

Few men in American history have been called by a nation for the singular purpose of becoming President. Our founding fathers loved to hide out on their farms and wait for the worst of the hand-wringing to pass when it was their turn to sit and helm the nation that is America. Well, they didn't live in a world that included the Internet, blogs and mass email campaigns. So no matter how far out in the woods your farm may be, I am sure the Internet is available.

Few have been called and you should be warned we will keep dialing.

Run, Al, run!

Dear Vice President Gore:

Your country is calling on you! Can you hear us?

We need you as our 44th President!

Please run.